# Ballyfraley, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Grange, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Fhreáile.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,039,330 m² (103.93 ha, 256.82 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,099 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Grange, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/grange.md
- Barony: Glenquin
- Electoral division: Ardagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,037 people lived in 384 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31631
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120240
- Centre: latitude 52.468672, longitude -9.027348 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfraley, from 189 m² to 399,070 m² (39.91 ha, 98.61 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1612607: 399,070 m² (39.91 ha, 98.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612607.md
- Parcel 1665768: 232,241 m² (23.22 ha, 57.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665768.md
- Parcel 1588792: 232,238 m² (23.22 ha, 57.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588792.md
- Parcel 1616494: 100,898 m² (10.09 ha, 24.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616494.md
- Parcel 1658369: 60,393 m² (6.04 ha, 14.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658369.md
- Parcel 1622444: 20,888 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622444.md
- Parcel 1661656: 9,763 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661656.md
- Parcel 1630378: 8,341 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630378.md
- Parcel 1630379: 4,640 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630379.md
- Parcel 1604852: 4,352 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604852.md
- Parcel 1608245: 4,263 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608245.md
- Parcel 1601171: 4,146 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601171.md
- Parcel 1640963: 4,051 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640963.md
- Parcel 1662949: 3,564 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662949.md
- Parcel 1663294: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663294.md
- Parcel 5507341: 3,354 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5507341.md
- Parcel 1630707: 1,809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630707.md
- Parcel 1661175: 1,551 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661175.md
- Parcel 1612158: 1,487 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612158.md
- Parcel 1664505: 1,112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664505.md
- Parcel 1597945: 535 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597945.md
- Parcel 1673587: 245 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673587.md
- Parcel 1672042: 196 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672042.md
- Parcel 1664107: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664107.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfraley in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 25 Sept 2020, Limerick County Council 20964: Conditional. Permission. amendments to planning permission ref. 19/692. The amendments consist of a change of design to the domestic garage consisting of the increase in overall height to allow for upper floor with the inclusion of a home gym and office space and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20964/0
- 12 Jul 2019, Limerick County Council 19692: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the demolition of the existing cottage and adjacent sheds and for the construction of a replacement dwelling house, a domestic garage, waste-water treatment system, the relocation of the site entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19692/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyfraley.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI028-142: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI028-142----. In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.8m) with external fosse (Wth 1.9m; D 0.8m). Bank is best preserved WSW->NNW. Fosse evident all round though deepest and waterlogged E->S. At NNW cattle accessing interior have word gap across enclosing element (Wth c. 2.5m). Field boundary skirts external edge of fosse N->NE. Shallow drain on NNE-SSW axis opens into fosse at SSW. Apart from narrow band around perimeter, interior is covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI028-180: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI028-180----. In pasture, on gentle SSE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.5m) with external fosse (D 1.05m; Wth 3m). Outer edge of fosse is truncated by field boundary and drain NNW->NE; drain feeds water into fosse at NE and fosse is waterlogged except W->NNW. Much of enclosing element and all of interior covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-032: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-032----. In level pasture, on crest of low rise. Circular area (42.6m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.25m; Wth 2.3m). Scarp is most pronounced SE->NE but very slight NE->SE. Entrance (Wth 8m) via ramp at W. Interior level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
- LI036-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-034----. In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (37.8m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.45m; Wth 4.6m) with an external fosse (D 0.7m; Wth 2.8m). Entrance (Wth 4.2m) with causeway across fosse at ESE. Field boundary truncates enclosing element N->ENE. Interior, under pasture, slopes gently down from edge to centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-206: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-206----. In level pasture. Oval area (16m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) defined by scarped edge (H 0.75m; Wth 3.35m) with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 8.35m). Earthen field boundary, overgrown with bushes, overlies top of scarper edge except at NE, ESE and SW where there are gaps in the boundary. Level interior covered by tall grasses. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-212: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-212----. In level pasture, 253m N of Ballyfraley stream, a ringfort (LI036-032 ----) lies 35m to the S. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Hugh Carey during examination of aerial photographs (Bing maps aerial photograph 2014) and described as a possible ringfort. Levelled monument visible as circular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 37m N-S; 42m E-Wm) from SE-S-W-NW, delimited from NW-N-E-SE by a curved field boundary running NW-SE on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimages. A linear cropmark running N-S intersects the monument at SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bing maps aerial photograph. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 20 April 2021

Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfraley.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyfraley, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_490, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_490.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyfraley.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyfraley.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyfraley.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballyfraley with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballingowan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballingowan.md
- Coolacokery: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolacokery.md
- Coolanoran: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolanoran.md
- Grange Lower: https://everytownland.com/limerick/grange-lower-121197.md
- Moveedy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moveedy.md

A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyfraley
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